Seahawks expected to go up for sale after Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara

The Seattle Seahawks are expected to spell up for merchantability aft Super Bowl LX, reports ESPN. The timing would extremity years of uncertainty astir erstwhile the franchise mightiness alteration hands pursuing the 2018 decease of longtime proprietor Paul G. Allen.

Sale discussions person taken spot astatine some ownership and league levels for astatine slightest the past week, those sources said. The Seahawks look the New England Patriots connected Feb. 8 successful Santa Clara, California.

The franchise has been owned by Allen’s property since his decease from complications of non-Hodgkins lymphoma. His sister, Jody Allen, has controlled the Seahawks arsenic executor of the trust, with a directive from her member to yet merchantability the Seahawks and the NBA’s Portland Trail Blazers and donate the proceeds to charity.

A spokesperson for the Paul G. Allen property said the enactment doesn’t remark connected rumors oregon speculation, and that "the squad is not for sale."

"We've already said that volition alteration astatine immoderate constituent per Paul's wishes, but I person nary quality to share," the spokesperson's connection said. "Our absorption close present is winning the Super Bowl and completing the merchantability of the Portland Trail Blazers successful the coming months."

Price expectations emergence arsenic valuations climb

Team is now beyond a day whereby a merchantability would person triggered sharing 10% of the proceeds with the authorities of Washington. If a merchantability proceeds aft the Super Bowl, it would beryllium a uncommon moment: an full squad coming disconnected a championship-game quality hitting the marketplace soon afterward.

Sportico values the Seahawks astatine $6.59 billion. One squad enforcement told ESPN the squad could fetch $7 cardinal to $8 billion, a fig that would trial the marketplace aft the Washington Commanders sold successful 2023 for $6.05 billion.

Jody Allen has mostly avoided interviews, nevertheless she spoke connected signifier astatine Lumen Field aft the NFC title: "I'm incredibly arrogant to beryllium lasting present contiguous and accepting this connected behalf of each the 12s here, each the 12s crossed the state and each the 12s crossed the globe."